This measure requires public schools to provide each student with 30 hours of education on environmental sustainability and sustainable best practices every two years. [Ballot]

Mar 25, 2025 - This measure would have the following fiscal effect: Costs likely not exceeding the low tens of millions of dollars during initial implementation, then declining over time, for public schools to purchase materials and make adjustment to their science lessons.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2025-001

Proposition 35 [Ballot]

Nov 5, 2024 - Proposal Makes Existing Health Plan Tax Permanent. Proposition  35 makes the existing health plan tax permanent beginning in 2027. The state would still need federal approval to charge the tax. The tax would continue to be based on the number of people to whom health plans provide health coverage.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Proposition?number=35&year=2024

Proposition 36 [Ballot]

Nov 5, 2024 - Proposition  36 makes this crime a felony if the person has two or more past convictions for certain theft crimes (such as shoplifting, burglary, or carjacking). The sentence would be up to three years in county jail or state prison.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Proposition?number=36&year=2024

Proposition 32 [Ballot]

Nov 5, 2024 - Workers who would have made less than $18 per hour would instead make $18 or more per hour by 2026. Higher minimum wages also tend to push up wages for other workers. This means that many workers making a bit more than $18 per hour also likely would get a raise.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Proposition?number=32&year=2024

Proposition 4 [Ballot]

Nov 5, 2024 - This would include storing water so it can be used during future droughts, as well as cleaning polluted water to make it safe to drink. Money would also be used to help reduce the risk of floods, such as by repairing dams and capturing and reusing stormwater ($1.1  billion).
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Proposition?number=4&year=2024

Proposition 6 [Ballot]

Nov 5, 2024 - People who refuse to work or do other activities can face consequences such as losing the ability to make regular phone calls. Proposal Bans Involuntary Servitude as a Punishment for Crime. Proposition  6 changes the Constitution to ban involuntary servitude as a punishment for crime.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Proposition?number=6&year=2024

Proposition 5 [Ballot]

Nov 5, 2024 - A lower voter approval requirement would make it easier to pass local general obligation bonds for housing assistance and public infrastructure. Recent local election results suggest that an additional 20 percent to 50  percent of local bond measures would have passed under Proposition 5 ’s lower voter approval requirement.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Proposition?number=5&year=2024

Proposition 33 [Ballot]

Nov 5, 2024 - The proposition itself does not make any changes to existing local rent control laws. Generally, cities and counties would have to take separate actions to change their local laws. Limits State Ability to Regulate Rent Control.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Proposition?number=33&year=2024

Sports wagering. [Ballot]

Dec 18, 2023 - However, the state ’s ability to require tribes to make payments to state and local governments is generally limited to state and local governmental costs resulting from the authorization, regulation, and oversight of gaming activities; compensation to mitigate the negative impacts of gaming; and distribution to other tribes, among other things.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2023-031

Climate change. [Ballot]

Sep 1, 2023 - Current law would require the state to make these changes eventually, but meeting the higher GHG reduction target likely would require this shift to happ en more quickly and thereby both accelerate and increase associated costs.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2023-012